Watchdogs from Within: Government Lawyers in Divided Times: Glenn Fine, in conversation with Professors Anne Joseph O’Connell and Shirin Sinnar
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Mr. Fine served as Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. After practicing law at a firm, Fine returned to government, and in January 2016 he became the Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Defense. In this role, he led the largest inspector general’s office with more than 1700 staff in 50 offices around the country and the world, for over 4 years.
Mr. Fine will discuss the range of issues he oversaw in his role as government watchdog, including investigating abuses to immigrant detainees after the 9/11 attacks; investigating corruption in the Federal Bureau of Prisons; overseeing the FBI’s use of terrorist watchlists and misuse of national security letters; investigating politicized hiring and firings in the Department of Justice; oversight of allegations of misconduct against senior military and Department of Defense leaders; and reporting on the status of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
| About Glenn Fine
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Glenn Fine is a Nonresident Fellow in the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution. Fine served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. As the Inspector General, he supervised and issued reports of investigations and audits on many high-profile issues facing the Department of Justice. After practicing law at a firm, Fine returned to government, and in January 2016 he became the Acting Inspector General for the Department of Defense. In this role, he led the largest inspector general’s office with more than 1700 staff in 50 offices around the country and the world, for over 4 years. Fine has testified more than 50 times before Congressional committees and has written articles on the role of inspectors general, federal investigations, and management in federal agencies. He has received numerous honors for his inspector general work, including being named the Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal. Fine graduated from Harvard College, where he majored in economics. He was the co-captain of the Harvard basketball team and was selected in the 10th round of the 1979 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs. Instead of trying out for the Spurs, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. Fine earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. After law school, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington D.C. |
